Miter Saw Station

Long story shortened a little, I recently lost the use of my neighbor’s Bosch SCMS. He kept it in my shop for 3 years before he ended up taking it back for a project and as I figured it has found it’s permanent home in his basement. I missed that saw!! So I bought a new Jet SCMS and I’d been wanting to build a portable saw station for the miter saw and bought some plans from Plansnow.com. A few nights later I had the thing pretty much built. I bought some nice Rockler locking casters on sale and love how the thing rolls around the shop.

I bought a new Freud blade to replace the really bad blade that came on the saw and it works great. I’ll have to write a review on the saw station plans and on the saw after a get a few more miles under my belt with it. So far so good!

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This looks great. I am looking at plans on designing and building my own Miter Saw stand. I am about 6 feet tall and I was think of a stand that is 42 ” tall. That way the “wings” can be “at least” 36” long.

I like the stand. I will be interested to see how you like the saw. I have a 10” Craftsman that is the EXACT same as the Jet. The Craftsman saw has been out for a few years and jet recently re-badged the same saw as their own. I have not been at all ahppy with mine. The fence will not stay in adjustment and is not even close to 90 degrees to the table. Good luck with it and I sure hope you have better luck with the saw than I have had. My review of the saw is here

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i didn’t know jet made a scms. the rolling cabinets looks good. i like this idea a lot. the folding wings can really save some space. i also have limited space in my basement, and i was going to dedicate one area against the wall for the scms, but with this cabinet, i can put another bench there. Good job to you !

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Looking at plans for one like this that needs 5/16×1 1/2” and 5/16×2 1/4” knobs to hold stock to fence and so on I live in Canada and would like to know a place that has most of the hardwear that is needed for home DIY woodworking.

I built the same saw station a couple of years ago, I love it. It was fun to build and works like a charm. I added a plywood dust hood that is is attached to my dust collector, also works great. Nicely done.

Thanks for all the comments. One thing about this that I might changed is the stop block design. It has just a little flex to it so repeatability might suffer a little. I think I can use the lock down function that’s there and improve the stop block itself.

Another change I made was to build it using Kreg pocket screws and not so many dadoes. It is very strong and the construction goes so much faster.

One warning on the plans; I miscut the tapered support wings that flip up. The drawings did not make it clear that you taper both the front and back edges to the reach the required width. I cut all of the taper out of the front before realizing later that this wasn’t right. Something to keep in mind if you decide to build it. Otherwise it was a fun project.

Knothead: I’m sure it will get dusty in there but most of the chips fly back so I may take douglbe’s idea and attach a hood behind it to catch the majority of it.

Douglbe: post a photo of your dust hood sometime. I’d like to see how you did that.

I’m 6’1” and I like having this up a little higher than the plans call for. The larger casters did the trick just fine.

The width of the support racks is almost 7 or 8 feet. Plenty wide for the stuff I cut.

Where were you guys when I was asking for advise on buying or not buying the Jet SCMS. I found only one review of the product after searching for days. It was favorable but probably written by Jet themselves.

Well, I own it now and I’ll make the best of it. I’ll do a review down the road a little.

One more thing, the original plans came from ShopNotes #31 in case you have that issue.